Fifty-Two Year Resident Of Texas, T. H. Hefner, Dies at Home in Forney

Thomas Hamilton Hefner

Dallas Morning News
Sunday, 10 December 1939, Page I-4

Special to The News

FORNEY, Texas, Dec. 9 – Thomas Hamilton Hefner, 83. A resident of Texas for fifty-two years, died Saturday at his home in Forney after a short illness.

Funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the First Christian Church at Forney, with Dr. W. C. Morro officiating.  Burial services will be conducted by the Master Masons of Brooklyn Lodge, with T. K. ball conducting.

Mr. Hefner was born in Alabama in 1856 and came to Texas when he as 21 years old.  He was in the drug business in Forney for a number of years and severed several years as chairman of the Republican executive committee of Kaufman County.  He was a charter member of the First Christian Church and a member of Brooklyn Lodge.

He was a Dallas News circulation representative in Forney from 1916 until about a year ago, when he retires.

He is survived by his wife, a daughter, Mrs. C. Richard Clark, and a granddaughter, Carol Clark, Dallas. Pallbearers will be Guyton McKellar, Cleon Lewis, S. G. Venner, C. C. Crittenden, Alf York and Roy Taylor.